The shell structure of 3He droplets

Liquid 3He droplets and their shell structure are investigated in the framework of mean-field calculations using a recently developed effective energy functional which employs realistic finite range interactions throughout. The samples range from N=20 up to N=1360. The shell closures found agree with the harmonic oscillator scheme up to N=168. Above that, magic droplets appear at N=198, 274, 300, 368, 398, 482, 516 ... The first and second differences of the free energy are computed as signals for the shell structure in future experiments. Shell closures are found to be still visible in these signals at comparatively high temperatures. The finite range character of the effective interaction generates oscillations in the density profile which are suppressed in comparable calculations with zero range interactions. (orig.)